Separable button



(No Model.)

E. PRINGLE.

SEPARABLE BUTTON. No. 447,347. Patented Mar 3, 1 891 m mums versus cm, mo'm-uYnm, wumuunm, n. c.

'NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EUGENE PRINGLE, oF GLOVERSVILLEl, NEwYoRK, Assicnon TO MADISON D. SHIPMAN AND CHARLES E.BRADT, BOTH OF DE KALB, ILLINOIS.

.SEPARABLE BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 447,347, dated March 3, 1891. Application filed September 8, 1888. Serial l lo- 284,942. (No model.)

To allwhom it may concern.-

Be it known that L'EUGENE PRINGLE, a citizen of. the United States, residing at Gloversville, in the county of Fulton and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Separable Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in separable buttons; and it consists in the devices and parts and combinations of devices and parts hereinafter described, and specifically set forth in the claims.

The objects of my invention are, first, to

' combine with a head of a separable button an 5 elastic stud-catch, a stud-catch-supporting piece, and a stud-catch-bindingpiece for operating with the outer ring-form portion of the catch; second, to provide in a buttonhead of a separable button a combination of an elastic stud-catch, (having a ringform outer portion and a catching-limb made integral with said ring portion and relatively tangent to the circumference of the ooacting stud,) a catch-supporting plate, a bindingpiece resting on the upper side of the ringshaped portion of the stud-catch, and a clamping-piece which will hold the binding-piece and supporting-piece clamped against the opposite sides of the ring portion of said catch; third, to provide, in a head of a separable button a stud-catch which has a ring-form outer portion, two plates binding the said ring-form portion with the catching-limb free, a clinching device which will bind the piece acting on the ring-form portion of the catch with the same, and a button-headclosing piece provided with an eyelet for co-operation with a piece inclosing the elastic sprin -stud catch; fourth, to provide in a separable button the combination, with an elastic studcatch, of two pieces for clamping the ring portion of said catch, a clamping-shell and an outer inclosing shell for'clamping on the upper side of the material, and an eyelet which will unite the clamping-piece and shell with the pieces which clamp the stud-catch and the material on its under side; fifth, to provide in a separable button the combination, with the shell-form stud and a clamping-washer, of an eyelet connected with the stud and a closingpiece connected with the washer, whereby the stud will be secured to the material; sixth, to provide in a separable button, and in combination with the closing plate or piece attached to the washer which co-operateswith an eyelet for securing the stud to the material, anon-metallic covering applied to the wear side of the closing-piece, whereby the face side of the piece will have a non-metallic wearing-surface. I attain these objects by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, formingapart of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of the button-head and stud of a separable button. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the piece which supports the elastic stud-catch. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the same. Fig. 4 is a plan view of my improved elastic stud-catch. Fig. 5 is a sectional view of the same. Fig. 6 is a plan view of one form of piece which can be employed for clamping the elastic spring-catch in place. Fig. 7 is a sectional view of the same. Fig. Sis a plan view of a clampingpiece which can be employed for holding the elastic stud-catch-holding piece and top clamping-piece in place on the stud-catch. Fig. 9 is a sectional elevation of the same. Fig. 10 is a plan view of a form of an eyelet which can be employed to connect the shell of the button-head with the stud-catch-holding device and clamping the material. Fig. 11 is a sectional elevation of the same. Fig. 12 is a plan view of the outer inclosing shell of the button-head. Fig. 13 is asectional view of the same. Fig. 14 is a sectional elevation showing modified forms of some of the parts which can be used in the button-head for holding the elastic stud-catch in place and in connection with the outer shell. Fig. 15 is asec tional elevation which illustrates other m0difloat-ions of the same. Fig. 16 is a sectional view illustrating modifications of other parts.

Fig. 17 is a sectional elevation of the stud and eyelet connected'together before attachment to the material. Fig. 18 is a sectional View of the clamping-Washer and eyeletspreading piece connected with the same before attachment tothe coacting stud. Fig. 19 is a plan view of the clam ping-piece holding the stud connected with the eyelet. Fig. 20 is a sectional view of the same before be ing secured to the attaching-eyelet. Fig. 21

is a sectional view of the stud before attachment to the eyelet. Fig. 22 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 23 is the attaching-eyelet employed with the stud. Fig. 2i is a plan View of the same. Fig. 25 is a sectional view of the clamping-washer. Fig. 2G is a plan view of the same. Fig. 27 is a sectional view of the eyelet-spreading piece before its connection with the clamping-washer and the non-metallic covering to thesame before the connection of the said piece and clamping-washer.

Fig. 28 is a plan view of the same.

The same letters of reference refer to like parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings, A represents a plain gircular piece for supporting the elastic studcatch I3 from its lower side. This piece is shown in Fig. 2 to be in the form of a plain disk having a central perforation a. In Fi 15 this disk A is shown to have made with it a clinching-flange a.

B is the elastic stud-catch, made of wire, bent so as to produce the ring-form portion 1) and an internal coil Z), continued from the ring portion 1) to the catching-limb b and all integral, as shown in Fig. 4. This elastic stud-catch B thus formed rests on the supporting-piece A, as shown in Figs. 1, 14,15 and 16.

C is the top side binding-piece of the elastic stud-catch A, and is shown in Figs. 1, 6, and '7 to be made with a dome-shaped top 0 and bearing-rim c. IVhen in position, as shown in Fig. 1, this rim portion 0 will have bearing on the ring-form portion Z) of the studcatch, as shown in Fig. 1.

In Fig. 14 piece (1 is employed as a substitute for piece C (shown in Figs. 1, 6, and 7) and operates the same as to the purpose of clamping on the upper side of the ring-form portion 1) of the spring-catch B, and in Fig. 15 the piece C operates substantially for the same purpose.

In Fig. 16 the piece 0 is shown to operate for the same purposes as piece C in Figs. 1 and 7 and as pieces 0' C in Figs. H and 15, while at the same time this piece 0 is shown to have made with it a clinching-rim c for binding piece A against the lower side portion 1) of the elastic stud-catch B.

D is apiec for holding the piece A in place against the lower side of the stud-catch, and also for holding with an eyelet for connecting the outer shell of the button-head with the parts holding the stud-catch.

E is the clamping'eyelet, having its flange 6 made with a curved form (or form corresponding with the outer shell) and its portion 6 extending from the apex of this curved flange downwardly, as shown in Fig. 11.

F is the outer or inclosing shell. This shell F is secured to piece E by clinching, as shown in the several .figures, and incloses all the parts of the button-head contained within the same.

In Fig. 15 the piece E is substituted for the piece E, (shown in Figs. 1, 10, and 11,) and it operates with the shell F and piece 0 to hold the parts which inclose the stud united with said shell F and also clamping with the material.

In Fig. 15 the dome portion 0 (of the top side binding-piece) of the stud-catch is omitted, and in lieu thereof there is employed the piece 0 for spreading portion of G which operates as an inverted eyelet for holding the upper clamping-shell with the stud-catch-supporting piece. At the same time it operates asa binding-piece on the upper side of portion I) of the stud-catch B. The eyelet portion of this piece C Fig. 15, is shown to be spread outwardly 011 the internal flange e by the piece 0 In Fig. 16 the piece designated as C (and. which operates the same as C in Fig. 15 and as a piece for binding on the upper side of the ring portion 1) of the stud-catch B) is shown to be clinched on the lower side of the spring-catch piece A. In these modifications shown in Figs.'1, 14, 15, and 16 the essential features of the studcatch B and the pieces or devices for clamping the rim portions 1) of the same from both its lower and 11 per sides are substantially the same, and the outer shell portion and outer piece clamping on the material are also substantially the same, while the pieces forming the binding or clinching eyelet and which hold the outer shell portions, with the part holding the stud-catcl1,diifer in form, though operating to effect substantially the same re sults.

G is the stud, made with ball form of head g and base-flange g.

H is an eyelet having its flange h set against the lower side of base 5 and secured thereto by clinching device I or by a clinching-rim made with the flange g of the stud or with the flange h of eyelet II.

J is a clamping-washer for coaction with eyelet H to secure it to the fabric. This washer is made with a concave form of bod v, as shown in Figs. 18 and 25. u

K is the washer-backing piece, having with it the clinching-rim 7c and eyelet-spreading port-ion k. (Shown in Figs. 18 and" 27.)

L is a non-metallic covering applied to the lower side of the washer-backing piece K. This covering I1, when turned and secured as shown in Fig. 18, operates as a wearing-face to prevent the metal of the washer-backing piece K from marking or soiling the wrists of the wearer of the glove.

By my above-described improvements the button-head portion and stud portion of the separable button can be cheaply produced and be made, respectively, to have a secure holding with the material and with each other.

\Vhat I claim as new is- 1. In aseparable button, the combination of the spring B, having the outlying ring-form portion 1), the inner central portion 1), and the stud-engaging arm N, with the plate A, hav ing a stud-receiving opening, a second outwardly-flanged piece, said pieces interlocked IIO supporting-piece with the outer shell of the button-head, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a separable button, the combination, with a shell-form stud provided with a baseflange and an eyelet secured by its flange with the flange of said stud, of the holding-washer and Washer-backing piece secured to said washer, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

EUGENE PRINGLE.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM F. SELKIRK, CHARLES SELKIRK. 

